Operation Flood A Different View

Operation Flood: A Different View B S Baviskar Shanti George WE welcome K T Achaya and Vinod K Huria's article "Rural Poverty and Operation Flood" (EPW, September 13). Since the third phase of Operation Flood has been recently inaugurated and aid for this phase is being negotiated with international agencies, the article is well timed to generate discussion of the various issues involved in the world's largest, most ambitious, and most controversial dairy development programme. What Achaya and Huria have to say on the subject is of special interest since they are the authors of an earlier article on the subject (EPW. November 8, 1980), an article notable for its wide range and stimulus to thought.